Display card



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DISPLAY CARD Filed May 29, 1939 ATTORNEY Patented Apr. 1, 1941 T orificei Y v 'DISPLAY CARD William-H. Weil, Richmond Hill, N. Y., assignor toStransky Products Corporation, New York, 'N. Y.,a corporation of NewYork Application vMay 29, 1939, seiai No. 276,311

3 Claims. (Cl. 20G-79) 'I'he present invention relates to improvementsover the device disclosed in Patent'No. 2,009,422, dated July 30, 1935,which discloses a displayV card wherein there may be mounted supportingattachments or the like Vfor pictures, cards,` etc.,

for displaying them. y Y Y y An object of the present'invention is toprovide means whereby such attachments or picture suspending devices maybe held in display position on the card by so mounting the same thatportions thereofare adapted to exert pressure upon other correspondingportions, so that the established pressure of each attachment orsuspending device upon each other provides reliable means for securelyholding a sekt or group o f the attachments in display position.

Another object of the invention is to provide simple meansV for mountingsuch an attachment on the card, by one simple movement of the hand orother medium, thereby rendering the mounting more expeditious, thisact-of mounting deflecting certain portions of thev card so thatthereupon the attachment is positioned in display position.`

Further objects are to provide simple, eilicient and reliable means forsecurely mounting such attachments 'or suspending devices for display ona card.

These being Vamong the objects of v the present invention, the sameconsists of certain'ieatures of construction and combinations of lpartsto be hereinafter described and then claimed, reference being had totheaccompanying drawing illustrating a suitable embodiment of the inventionand wherein Fig. 1 is a broken plan of one of` the card blanks; v

Fig. 2 is a, vbroken plan of' a card showing how the attachments orsuspending devices are mounted thereon for display;

more clearly how one ofthe attachments cooperates with an adjacent one;y

Fig. 4 is an enlarged brok-en plan showing the back of the portion ofthe card shown in` Fig. 3;

Fig. 5 is'al Asection-Aon the line 5 5, Fig. 3, viewed in the directionof the arrows;

Fig.r6 is a section onrthe line 5 5, Fig. viewed in the direction of thearrows;

. Fig, 7 is asection on` the line 'I l, Fig. viewed in'k thedirection ofthe arrows;

Fig. 8 is a broken plan 'of a portion of the card showing the positionwhich one of the attachments may takewhen in the act of mounting it onVthe card; Y

Fig.y y9 is a section on theline 9 9, Fig. 8, viewed inthe direction ofthe arrows; and

Fig. 10' is a broken plan of a card blank showing a slight Vmodificationthereof.

Referring to the drawing, preferably the card I0 is of suitable ilexible.cardboard adapted to be sltted through, although it willbe .obvious`herefromv that the invention` is notnecessarily restricted thereto.vThe articles or devices IIv to be supported on the-card I0, preferablyarethe well known picture suspending attachments, such as disclosed --bythe aforesaid patent.. Each of such picture hanging devices includes a.pronged base cross-piece I2,` a narrower apertured member or eye I3 forreceiving a supporting nail and a neck I4 connecting the cross-pieceandthe member I3. 1

The card I0 has elongated supportingmembers I5, preferably formed asstrips cut out from the card.- Theseelongated supporting members orstrips extend parallel with each other and are arranged in steppedrelation in the entire set or group thereof, Each member I5 or ,strip isde- `fined by slits, :comprising a 4long slit I6, shorter end slitsI'I,y I8, preferably substantially at right angles to slit I5, anda slitI9,l preferably substantially parallel with slit I6, which denes theOuter longitudinal edge of the member I5, while slit lI9. denes theinner edge thereof. Each slit. I9'is of such `a lengthas` to extend fora substantially greaterdistance than the width of the neck I4 of thearticle, as more clearly,v shown inv Figs. 3 and 4.

Atthe ends of each elongated member or strip I5, bendableconnections'20, 2| are formed late erally` of eachfmember, theconnectionZI being defined by the slit I8 and the adjoiningterminalofthe slit I9 while the bendable connection 20 isl dened by the slit I1and by a slit 22 at the opposite terminal of slit I9. vEachpair ofmeeting slits I9, 22 dene a yflap 23.

. lo* Fig. 3 is van enlarged broken plan showing f It will be noted thateach ilap 23'wil1 `there-- fore have two merging edges defined by theslits I9, 22,-they meeting in a corner 24, and one of said edges beingopposite vthe adjoiningedge of the supporting member I5, and the otheredge of the ap which is defined by the slit 22 extends away .from theadjoining edge of the supporting member and the corresponding edge ofthe ap.

, The edgeofthe flap which is defined by the slit 22 is formed bycommencing said slit 22 at a'point located at the left hand end of ltheadjoining edge of vthe supporting member I5, and by deflecting the slit22 slightly outwardly-away from the corner of the flap 23 andterminating'the slit `22-preferably at a distance away from slit I9which is approximately the length of slit I9. Preferably the slit 22 iscurved outwardly and then inwardly towards its outer terminal.` Henceshorter than shown, say about one-half of its length, and be evenstraight, and if straight it may extend at right angles to the slit I9or it may be inclined somewhat outwardly away from the slit I9.

Referring to Figs. 2 and 3 it will be noted that each displayed articlehas two main portions of relatively diierent widths, the wider portionor cross-piece I 2 being held under and by each sup-- porting member I5,and the narrower portion or eye I3 projecting over each ap 23. Thereason Why the article to be displayed can be inserted into displayposition is that the distance between the outer edge of the supportingmember connection 2i), which is nearest to or directly adjacent to theedge of the flap defined by the slit 22,-

and the remote end of the adjoining edge of supporting member I5,defined by slit I9, is slightly greater in length than the width of thenarrow portion or eye I3. These proportions enable the narrower mainportion I3 to be pushed underneath the supporting member I5 and onto theflap 23, and the insertion may be made by inclining the article as shownin Figs. 8 and 9 and by pushing the 'article inward so as to iinallyposition the portion or eye I3 over the iiap, and then adjusting andsquaring up the position of the article to that shown in Figs. 2 and 3.On the other hand, the article may be pushed straight in to position it,but in either case the same is shifted to the right to move the portionor eye I3 fully over onto the flap 23. The positioning of the articlemay therefore be accomplished by one movement, and the only parts hiddenwill be those directly adjacent the neck I4 of the article and the neck.

Referring again to Figs. 2 and 3 it will be noted that when a pluralityof articles are in a displayed position and the set of them arranged ina slanting position, as shown in Fig. 2, that portions of all but one ofthe articles bear in succession on corresponding ends of the strips orsupporting members I5 next adjacent to them, pressing said ends inwardlyat 25 upon the articles extending under the said next adjacent strips ormembers I5. Of course such pressure also reacts in the oppositedirection, and all of the articles will eventually be retained inposition by upward pressure from beneath. Preferably by using the cardI0 slitted, as shown, the last article to be l inserted is the one tothe extreme left.

Again referring to each flap 23 which has but two merging edges itwillbe noted that it is connected with the card along a line inclined tothe supporting member I5, which line passes through the outer terminalof the slit 22 and through the remote end of the adjoining edge of thesupporting member I5, so that when the eye 0r narrower main portion I 3of the article is `rst brought into engagement with the flap, the flapand the surrounding portion of the card can move relatively to eachother.

A slight modification ofthe card I0 is shown in Fig. 10 wherein theslits 26 which dene one edge of each flap 2l are at'the right hand endsof the supporting members 28. Obviously this construction of cardenables the articles to be positioned in a similar manner to what isshown in the remaining iigures of the drawing.

It will be obvious to those skilled in the art that other changes areWithin the spirit of the invention and the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim as new is l. A display card having an elongated supportingmember laterally connected at its ends therewith and underneath which anarticle may be mounted on the card, the card having a relatively movableflap with only two merging edges and over which a part of the articlemay extend, one of said edges located directly opposite the adjoininginner edge of the supporting member and kbetween the end connections,and the other edge extending away from said adjoining inner edge andstarting from the point of mergence of both edges at one end of saidadjoining edge, said other edge deilected slightly outwardly away fromits starting point -and deflected inwardly and then terminating, thelength of said inner edge of the supporting member being somewhat lessthan the other edge thereof and corresponding to the distance betweenVthe end-connections and to the length of said one edge of the flap, andthe flap connected with the card along a line inclined to the supportingmember and which passes through the outer terminal of its said otheredge and through the remote end of the adjoining edge of the supportingmember.

2. A display card and article assembly, the card having an elongatedsupporting member connected at its ends therewith and a relativelymovable flap with only two merging edges, one of said edges locateddirectly opposite the adjoining inner edge of the supporting member andbetween the end connections, and the other edge extending away from saidadjoining inner edge and starting from the point of mergence of bothedges at one end of said adjoining edge, said other edge terminating atits outer end at a distance away from said one edge, and the displayedarticle having two main portions of relatively different widths and aconnecting neck therefor, the wider portion held under and by saidsupporting member, and the narrower portion projecting over said ap,from between the adjoining opposite edges of the supporting member andthe iiap, the distance between the outer edge of the supporting memberconnection directly adjacent to said other edge of the flap and theremote end of said adjoining edge being slightly greater than the widthof said narrow portion of the article, and said article being insertableinto display position by passing said narrower portion underneath thesupporting member and engaging it over and onto the face of said flapand moving the article to an adjusted display position.

3. The combination of adisplay card and articles mounted thereon fordisplay, the card provided with a series of flexible strips which extendlengthwise of each other and are offset from each other edgewise, andthearticles extending underneath the strips and each displayed beyond theedges of its strip, portions of all but one of the articles bearing insuccession upon corresponding ends of the strips next adjacent them andpressing said ends inwardly upon the articles extending under said nextadjacent strips, thereby securing all of the articles, and the cardhaving a flexible flap next to one edge of each strip, each iiap havingbut two edges which converge at a point adjoining the end of the stripwhich is opposite to the end pressed inwardly, and each flap adapted tobe deflected backwardly by one end of the article when the article isbeing pushed under its strip to its display position, and each stripbeing slightly longer than the width of said one end of the article, forthe distance between the inner edge of one connection and the outer edgeof the other connection, to permit said one end to be pushed over thecorresponding flap.

W'ILLIAM H. WEIL.

